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Weekly digest · ISO week 2024-W21

20 May 2024 to 26 May 2024: UK medicine supply changes

8 items dated 20 May 2024 to 26 May 2024, each a re-expressed fact linked to its source document. This week is over. Changes are filed by the date the source gives them, so this week can still gain one if a source is captured late. Protocol end dates and expected-back windows are shown as the NHSBSA register and the notices stood when last checked, not as they stood during this week: a later extension or update can move one of them to another week or remove it. Corrections are logged on the corrections page.

Sources are checked twice daily by scheduled jobs (not live). Last checked 2026-10-20 20:54 UTC. England first; Scotland in its own section, never summed. Absence from this page is not availability. Also as Atom and JSON.

New notices · 4

Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).

DateRecordWhat the record says
20 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Humulin® S (insulin soluble human) 100units/ml solution for injection 10ml vialssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/053 issued 20 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
23 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Clarithromycin 125mg/5ml and 250mg/5ml oral suspensionssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/060 issued 23 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
23 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vialssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/059 issued 23 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
24 May 2024National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT)source document ↗National Patient Safety Alert MSN/2024/054 issued 24 May 2024.

Updated notices · 0

Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.

None recorded for this week.

Discontinuations · 0

Discontinuations stated in a notice, dated by the notice or update that states them.

None recorded for this week.

Expected-back windows ending this week · 0

Notices whose current stated expected-back window ends this week. The end is derived from the phrase: the stated day where the source gave one; six days after a stated week-commencing day; otherwise the 10th for "early", the 20th for "mid" and the last day of the month for "late" or a bare month (six days after it for a "week commencing" phrase with no readable day). The sources mostly give phrases like "late July", not days, so each item says which rule applied.

None recorded for this week.

Protocols issued, expired or revoked · 2

Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.

DateRecordWhat the record says
24 May 2024SSP060 Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsulesSerious Shortage Protocol SSP060 issued, valid from 24 May 2024, first scheduled to end 22 Nov 2024.
24 May 2024SSP061 Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsulesSerious Shortage Protocol SSP061 issued, valid from 24 May 2024, first scheduled to end 22 Nov 2024.

Protocols extended · 0

Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.

None recorded for this week.

Protocol end dates this week · 0

Protocols whose NHSBSA register end date falls this week, per the register as last checked.

None recorded for this week.

Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days · 1

Register end dates from 27 May 2024 to 09 Jun 2024. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

DateRecordWhat the record says
07 Jun 2024SSP059 Monomil XL 60mgsource document ↗Scheduled end 07 Jun 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.

Scotland · 1

NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.

DateRecordWhat the record says
20 May 2024MSAN(2024)26 — Humulin® S (insulin soluble human) 100units/ml solution for injection 10mlsource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 20 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2024-W21 (20 May 2024 to 26 May 2024), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-W21), by Doctor Data Ltd.” Derived facts CC BY 4.0; source documents belong to their publishers and are linked, not reproduced. A protocol's scheduled end is the NHSBSA register's date and says nothing about local stock. Not an official NHS or DHSC service; not clinical advice.